Chances are very good that snowboarder Kevin Pearce, critically injured in a training accident will return to snowboarding. He may even go on to win a Gold medal one day. Pearce, thought to be a possible gold medal winner in the Vancouver Winter Olympics didn’t compete this year. He struck his head in a training run on New Year’s Eve 2009 and suffered a traumatic brain injury. He can’t walk unassisted, has trouble speaking, and has a long recovery ahead of him. But the discipline and drive that made him …

Absolutely LOVED and hated Seth’s blog this morning. Why? Because for the past 30 years I’ve been learning to quiet my lizard brain like he said, but it’s only been this past year that I finally found something that works. It’s not quieting it. It’s listening to it.
Seth writes, “We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to come to market, but we sandbag the shipping schedule. We say …

Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
launched yesterday, Jan. 26, 2010. It’s quite a piece of work – and a great read if you haven’t read much of Seth before. I wrote a lengthy review of it earlier, but wanted to sum it up in a different way today. Linchpins, according to Seth, are not only those tiny pieces of cotter-pin that hold a machine together – they’re the critical and most important pin. Usually unnoticed until they fail, they make the rest of the machine, or in …

As the old saying goes, a chicken is involved in breakfast, a pig is committed to it. Commitment is something you don’t walk away from, at least not easily – like marriage, having children or giving up an addiction – like sugar, alcohol, tobacco, whatever.
A few weeks ago I committed to a new eating, exercising and health regime. I had to. I felt like I was dying. I had no energy, a deepening depression and constant pain. Today, after a month of giving up sodas, eating NO processed food …